Ageing and limb dominance effects on foot-ground clearance during treadmill and overground walking

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 962-968

  Nagano, Hanatsu ^a   Begg, Rezaul K ^a   Sparrow, William A ^a   Taylor, Simon ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ageing; Foot trajectory; Foot ground clearance; Gait asymmetry; Treadmill walking

Indexed keywords

3-DIMENSIONAL; AGE EFFECTS; AGEING; AGEING EFFECTS; DORSIFLEXIONS; FOOT-GROUND CLEARANCE; GAIT ASYMMETRY; GAIT CYCLES; LOWER LIMB; MEAN AGES; OLDER ADULTS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SWING PHASE; TRAJECTORY CONTROL; TREADMILL WALKING; UNEVEN TERRAIN; VERTICAL CLEARANCE; WALKING SPEED; WALKING SURFACES;

TRAJECTORIES;

SPORTING GOODS;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTACT ANGLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOT GROUND CLEARANCE; GAIT; HEEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMB DOMINANCE; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OVERGROUND WALKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREADMILL; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOMECHANICS; EXERCISE TEST; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FOOT; GAIT; HUMANS; KINETICS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SHOES; TIME FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 80053924185     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: 18791271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2011.05.013     Document Type: Article

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